[gdal-dev] Motion: Promote GDAL 1.9.0RC1 as GDAL 1.9.0 Final

[Etienne Tourigny]

Folks,

I would appreciate minimal testing for netcdf-4 in osx before
releasing rc2 (which should take a few days at the most).

Wiliam:

The driver in 1.9 includes support for netcdf-4, which uses hdf5 for
storage and supports deflate compression as well as a new data model.
Other important bugfixes and support for CF-1.5 have been included as
well.There are also some new autotests that are skipped if netcdf-4 is
not available to GDAL, if these pass the build should be fine.

More details here:
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_netcdf.html (Driver Improvements (GDAL >= 1.9.0) )
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/NetCDF_Improvements
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/NetCDF

configure script should detect netcdf-4 if it is installed (and
nc-config can be found in the appropriate path), and if hdf5 is
available to gdal and netcdf-4 was built with netcdf-4/hdf5 support
(shared build). You might need to add --with-netcdf=path_to_netcdf if
it doesn't get detected (right after hdf4 and hdf5 detection).

I have sent a few emails to the list:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-December/031116.html
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2011-October/030472.html

Bug entries for netcdf-4 support (including some tests)
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3890
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2379
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4408


Wiliam, if have any problems building I'll be happy to help, and if
any of the tests fail please file a bug report.  I am on vacation but
have access to internet at night.

regards,
Etienne

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:47 AM, William Kyngesburye
<woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> I've always built netcdf without v4 API because GDAL didn't support it.  I missed that addition in GDAL 1.9, so it looks like I have more work for compilation and testing ;)
>
> I saw some time ago that HDF5 added some capbility for integration with netcdf4, GDAL 1.9 supports this now?
>
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
>
>> William,
>>
>> Can you comment on the status of support for netcdf4 + hdf5 in mac osx
>> ? Has that been tested, or is it possible to include them in your
>> builds?
>>
>> There have been a number of improvements to the netcdf driver for
>> 1.9.0 (including support for netcdf-4), it would be nice to have that
>> included in your builds.  If you need help I can try to assist, but I
>> don't have a mac nor experience with osx.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Etienne
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:20 PM, William Kyngesburye
>> <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
>>> One configuration problem so far on OS X:
>>>
>>> - with-freexl - doesn't test for freexl with libiconv (I have freexl compiled as static library, so it doesn't automatically link libiconv).  I just added $LIBICONV to both the freexl tests to get this to work, but another test for whether freexl needs iconv is really needed.
>>>
>>>
>>> And one compile error:
>>>
>>> webpdataset.cpp:536: error: invalid conversion from 'int' to 'WebPEncCSP'
>>>
>>> I changed the offending line to:
>>>
>>>    sPicture.colorspace = WEBP_YUV420;
>>>
>>> and it compiles.
>>>
>>>
>>> If these can be fixed for 1.9.0 release that would be great, otherwise I'll add bug reports.
>>>
>>> On Dec 31, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>>
>>>> Motion: To promote the GDAL/OGR 1.9.0RC1 release candidate as
>>>>            the final GDAL/OGR 1.9.0 release.
>>>>
>>>> +1 Frank
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> I have done a wee bit of testing and the release candidate seems
>>>> solid.  Other PSC members are encouraged to test and vote.
>>>> Feedback from other users is also welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Voting will remain open until at least the end of day on
>>>> Tuesday.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
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